Web analytics
In the early years of the internet, many websites carried odometer-style counters embedded in them. These were simple counts of the number of hits the website or a particular page had received. Then, they grew in their available formats—plain counters, counters per day/week/month, and even geolocation-based counters.
The collection of data, which is essentially the logs of the interactions of users and how they interact with a web-based application, processing this data to produce performance indicators, and then finally to identify measures that can be taken by a company to improve their web application is collectively known as web analytics.
Since the invention of the internet, web applications today generate a huge amount ...
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